Matthew 5:8

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Summary

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Are

For

1 John 3:2

Bible References

Are

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence!

I know, my God, that You test the heart and that You are pleased with what is right. I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.

The one who lives honestly, practices righteousness,
and acknowledges the truth in his heart—

with the pure
You prove Yourself pure,
but with the crooked
You prove Yourself shrewd.

The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who has not set his mind on what is false,
and who has not sworn deceitfully.

Surely You desire integrity in the inner self,
and You teach me wisdom deep within.

BOOK III
(Psalms 73–89)A psalm of Asaph. God is indeed good to Israel,
to the pure in heart.

The one who loves a pure heart
and gracious lips—the king is his friend.

I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Therefore, dear friends, since we have such promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, completing our sanctification in the fear of God.

To the pure, everything is pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; in fact, both their mind and conscience are defiled.

how much more will the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to serve the living God?

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people!

By obedience to the truth, having purified yourselves for sincere love of the brothers, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

For

Jacob then named the place Peniel, “For I have seen God face to face,” he said, “and I have been delivered.”

Even after my skin has been destroyed,
yet I will see God in my flesh.

For now we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,
but then face to face.
Now I know in part,
but then I will know fully,
as I am fully known.

Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness—without it no one will see the Lord.

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him because we will see Him as He is.